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Languages of Modern Jewish Cultures: Comparative Perspectives (Michigan Studies in Comparative Jewish Cultures) - Softcover

Norich, Anita; Miller, Joshua L

 
9780472053018: Languages of Modern Jewish Cultures: Comparative Perspectives (Michigan Studies in Comparative Jewish Cultures)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0472053019 ISBN 13: 9780472053018
Publisher: University of Michigan Press, 2016

Synopsis

This collection of essays brings to Jewish Language Studies the conceptual frameworks that have become increasingly important to Jewish Studies more generally: transnationalism, multiculturalism, globalization, hybrid cultures, multilingualism, and interlingual contexts. Languages of Modern Jewish Cultures collects work from prominent scholars in the field, bringing world literary and linguistic perspectives to generate distinctively new historical, cultural, theoretical, and scientific approaches to this topic of ongoing interest. Chapters of this edited volume consider from multiple angles the cultural politics of myths, fantasies, and anxieties of linguistic multiplicity in the history, cultures, folkways, and politics of global Jewry. Methodological range is as important to this project as linguistic range. Thus, in addition to approaches that highlight influence, borrowings, or acculturation, the volume represents those that highlight syncretism, the material conditions of Jewish life, and comparatist perspectives.

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About the Author

Joshua L. Miller is Associate Professor of English at the University of Michigan.

Anita Norich is Tikva Frymer-Kensky Collegiate Professor of English and Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan.

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Publisher
University of Michigan Press
Publication date
2016
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0472053019
ISBN 13 
9780472053018
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
452